Works by Rulan Chao Pian (1922-2013)

1950

Rulan C. Pian collection.

1956

Revue
bibliographique de sinologie,
vo1. 2, entry 470. [Between
1956 and 1964 Rulan Chao
Pian wrote 23 items for
the Revue bibliographique
de sinologie (Paris).
These are short discussions,
in English, of Chinese-language
publications on theater,
music, history and aesthetics.
They will be listed in
summary form by year.]

"Rewriting
of an Act of Yuan Drama, Lii Kwei Fuh Jing,
in the Style of the Peking
Opera: A Field Worker's
Experiment." Chinoperl
News 2: 19-39.

1971

"The Function of Rhythm
in the Peking Opera."
In The Musics of Asia,
edited by Jose Maceda,
114-31. Manila: the National
Music Council of the Philippines
with the UNESCO National
Commission of the Philippines.

"Higashi Ajia no Ongaku
no Tayosei to no Kankei"
[Diversity and Interrelationships
of the Musics of East
Asia]. In Nippon no
Ongaku, Ajia no Ongaku [Music Traditions of Japan,
Asia and Oceania], vol.
3: 145-58. Tokyo: Iwanami
Shoten.

1988

Review
of Flying Dragons,
Flowing Streams: Music
in the Life of San Francisco's
Chinese, by Ronald
Riddle. Asian
Theatre Journal 1: 103-05.

"Return
of the Native Ethnomusicologist." Yearbook
for Traditional Music 24: 1-7. [Keynote speech
at the 31st World Conference
of the International Council
for Traditional Music,
Hong Kong, 1991.]

1993

"Text
Setting and the Use of
Tune Types in Chinese
Dramatic and Narrative
Music." In Text,
Tone, and Tune: Parameters
of Music in Multicultural
Perspective, edited
by Bonnie C. Wade, 201-33.
New Delhi-Bombay-Calcutta:
American Institute of
Indian Studies, Archives
and Research Center for
Ethnomusicology, and Oxford
and IBH Publishing. [Paper
read at Symposium on Texts,
Tones and Tunes, New Delhi,
1986.]

1994

"A Selection of Works
in Western Languages on
the Peking Opera With
Commentary." Read in Chinese
at the International Academic
Symposium on Chinese Traditional
Opera Arts, Beijing, 1987.
In Association for
Chinese Music Research
Newsletter 7/1 (Summer,
1994).

1995

"Autobiographical sketches." ACMR reports: Journal
of the Association for
Chinese Music Research 8/1: 1-20.

1997

"Music
and the Confucian sacrificial
ceremony." In Enchanting
powers: music in the world's
religions, edited
by Lawrence E. Sullivan,
237-262. Cambridge, Mass.
: Distributed by Harvard
University Press for the
Harvard University Center
for the Study of World
Religions.

"Some Thoughts on the
Classification Scheme
Used by the Chinese Music
Archives at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong."
To appear in the festschrift
for the late Dr. A. K.
Chiu.

"Music in the Chinese
Context." Paper read at
Symposium on National
Music Cultures and Intercultural
Dependencies, Berlin,
June 5-9, 1985. To appear
in the festschrift for
Prof. Frederic Mote.

"Contribution of the
Percussion Orchestra to
Dramatic Structure in
the Peking Opera." Paper
read at the 27th International
Congress of Orientalists,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967.
To appear in the festschrift
for Prof. James Crump.